creative

Acquiring fresh ideas

I think getting new, valid, and visible ideas requires effort as the creative process requires effort. Frequently, this inventive journey follows a cascade of ideas and thoughts that may seem disconnected and unrelated to the untrained observer. It takes a clear state of mind to see connections suddenly and serendipitously between unrelated concepts. Contact me via e-mail if you are interested in hearing more.

““There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, diamonds, and to know oneself.””
— Benjamin Franklin

A golden opportunity

When there’s too many options the brain locks up! Have you heard the term, buyers regret? Buyer’s regret is where buyers would rather not decide than decide and be wrong. When there are more options, this provides a golden opportunity for salespersons to help the customer and become that trusted advisor. The opportunity to explain things to the buyer and help guide them into a buying decision, now salespersons are more valuable than ever. In other words, it’s not what you sell, it’s how you sell in today’s market, and good salespersons are more valuable than ever because there’s more options.

 

As a salesperson you are not just selling a product or service, you are selling the way to build their business and different ways they can use it. What if you start getting more creative about how your product or service can help the company increase revenue? What if you start getting more creative about how your product or service can help the company reduce expenses? What about if you can help them expand their market share in ways that they haven’t thought about? The fact that you can give them ideas, positions you as the expert, the person with insights who adds value in the conversation.

Head in the clouds

Mind-wandering the enemy of focus because if your mind is wondering then by definition, you are not focusing and vice-versa. According to Wikipedia, mind-wandering could be described as the experience of thoughts not remaining on a single topic for a long period of time, particularly when people are engaged in an attention-demanding task. I think having your head in the clouds and mind-wandering is extremely valuable and essential for creative insights. This is because the creative process demands that you first gather information and focus on the problem, then you really concentrate and then let go.

The annals of science, art and mathematics are full of people who came up with incredible solutions when they were just daydreaming - in the shower, driving a car, sitting on a train or bus, walking the dog, etc. And that’s because during mind-wandering we can make connections between remote elements in a new way that has value. Now if we move into the execution phase, where you put the idea to use, then you must go back into focus.

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Such is the nature of human experience

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When you have that big important WHY, that thing that gives you the reason to wake up with enthusiasm. The reason why you want to succeed, why you want to win. The why that tells your subconscious mind the direction you should take if you want to evolve and grow. I have found out what my responsibility is in this world. It’s my responsibility to take what I’ve been given and turn it into something that is was not when it was originally handed to me.


This process is not hard if you are creative, innovative and persistent. In order to master something use these skills and the results will be miraculous. It requires an investment and commitment, especially nowadays when we are in the digital age where everything is controlled by a button. The best things in life requires process and if you run away from the process you will alienate the promise. What I mean is that in order to get to the promise, you have to go through the process. And in the process of going through all that the person who get the most is the person who has shaped the process.